Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

New analysis suggests Webb’s little red dots are young black holes hidden in thick gas, with masses far smaller than first thought.

Mysterious objects or "little red dots" seen in the early universe by the JWST. | Credit: JWST/NIRSpec. Forget "little green men" — it is "little red dots" in the infant universe that caught the eye ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed surprising objects in the early Universe in recent years: the "Little Red Dots". These compact red dots, observed less than a billion years after the ...

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space- based observatory, and the ...

The binary system G3425 has some strange and tough-to-explain characteristics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...